Saturday, May 28, 2016

Open Access Bibiography: Zenon at the DAI

The DAI compiles some of the most important bibliographies on archaeology:

Archaeological Bibliography

Bibliography of the Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula

Subject catalogue of the Roman-German Commission

Bibliography of the Archaeology of Eurasia (completed bibliography)

You are now able to search through the Archaeological Bibliography free of charge at the website of the DAI.
Please take a look at our central online catalogue ZENON DAI: opac.dainst.org!

The Archaeological Bibliography is expanded daily by the departments in
Rome, Athens, Istanbul and the head office in Berlin, and it comprises
titles collected since 1956 (approx. 400,000 titles).

As a result of the involvement of the Athens and Istanbul departments in
compiling the bibliography (since spring 2006), considerably more Greek
and Turkish journals and monographs have been described and made
available for research, in view of the holdings of those libraries. The
Archaeological Bibliography is being expanded additionally in the
following areas: prehistory/Anatolia and among the oriental cultures:
Hittites and Urartu.

In the Archaeological Bibliography you can search for monographs and
articles from approx. 2,700 journals and articles from congress reports
and festschrifts, etc. The bibliography contains the literature on
Graeco-Roman culture and its peripheral cultural and also literature on
Etruscan, Minoan and Mycenaean culture, the Anatolian cultures,
prehistory and ancient history including epigraphy and numismatics.

Congress reports are now archived more consistently than before, arranged as a whole and described according to content.

Festschrifts and publications by several authors are described according to content if they have a unifying theme.

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.